Mega Shark vs Kolossus
For Aslyum pictures, this is the fourth in the unrelated Mega Shark semi franchise. It may not be an outright mock buster, but KoloSSus has a lot in common with a particular, um, Terminator that just happens to be opening in theaters a few weeks after this first goes to the small screen. That is part of the innocuous appeal of the flick that features once upon a time rabid independents Illeana Douglas.
A filmmaker who is so anti commercial that she has jet blackened Jon Favreau’s name for running off to studios, who appears now in a b film genre movie… go figure. It is apt that this “monster movie” has brought back an anti science paranoia that is reminiscent of the period when godzilla was trapping around post nuclear japan. In the Russian state there is a top secret operation for constructing a new energy source that goes haywire and reactivates a thirty foot war machine named Kolossus.
It seems that one threat to the global civilization is not enough as a newer, bigger Mega Shark resurfaces from the bottom of the continental shelf. Imagine what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. That’s the basis for a showdown between the bad creation of man and the freak accident of mother nature. Clearly, this is neither the mother of imagination Jaws nor sleek goodness Terminator but this is some rowdy fun a few laughs and definitely better in the entertainment department than the pretentious Sharkanado franchise.
This was Import film, the fourth of The Asylum’s Mega Shark films. The series had started with Mega Shark vs giant Octopus (2009), which was a moderate success and proved that there was a market for monster movies with sillily nested menu items. It also became The Asylum’s first gonzo shark film, a craze that may have reached its peak with Sharknado and its follow-ups in 2013. The Asylum produced three sequels to Mega Shark, two of which were Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurs (2010) and Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark (2014), after which sequel Mega Shark vs Kolossus came here.
The Asylum’s believed most popular and perhaps the most famous cult film ‘Sharknado’ was the first title that started the creation of the Mega Shark series sequel ‘Mega Shark vs Kolossus’. Because of the considerable success of Sharknado, Asylum has made some shifts to the Mega Shark franchise. At this point, it is quite evident that the same brand of wacky silliness that characterized Sharknado has been allowed to take over the Mega Shark franchise as well- Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark was heading that way but with Mega Shark vs Kolossus they strike just the right balance and create the most entertaining in the franchise to date.
It is also the most interesting film we have had so far from owed to Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray (see below the films of Christopher). The lead effects artist, in particular, should have been able to perform some magic of their own with this series, considering this is The Asylum’s specialty. There are a few rather amusing sequences showing the mega shark literally tossing battleships to the shores and one great shot where the megashark jumps out of the water over Illeana Douglas’s boat.
The enjoyment rises to a whole new level during the climax when Kolossus gets fighter jets in its hands and smashes them into each other then throws the gigantic shark into space so that it can shower down on a laser satellite, which ends up being sent way off into The Moon’s orbit. The asylum’s movies delve into some questionable politics at times. Although there are no expectations that they will be taken seriously. For example, Megalodon (2018), came out waving the flag wishing for the good old days when America was facing the evil Russians.
Given the same situation over here, you do not know what to think of the scenes where the mega shark is seen being wrapped in an American flag as it goes into battle against a robot made by the Soviets, which may or may not have been a Kolossus. In a way, one can’t help thinking of Mega Shark vs Kolossus in the same light, as it is the killer shark franchise’s version of the scene where Stallone’s character battles against Lundgren in Rocky IV (1985) where the mayhem between the two icons was propagating an East versus West scene.
Illeana Douglas is the most surprising piece of casting for me. The early Mega Shark film cast singer Debbie Gibson and tried similar stunts in other films. Illeana has had a career since the 1980s and respectable credits in a number of indie films, besides being a longtime girlfriend of Martin Scorsese. The only question is why hasn’t she done B movies before? She’s excellent in the part, very hot at fifty, overacting the character by some margin.
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